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Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development

By : Alex Chow
Book Image

Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development

By: Alex Chow

Overview of this book

So, your company has made the wise decision to use Dynamics NAV as its main business software for all its enterprise resource planning. Dive in and learn the ins and outs of the software from a development standpoint and unlock the software's full potential.The book will walk you through creating an application from start to finish. Once you know how to create a working application that users can access, you will have the knowledge and the resources needed to create other applications based on the tutorials covered in this guide.You will start by obtaining a free trial version of Dynamics NAV and then be introduced to the world of analyzing and deriving user problems into a requirements list. Finally, you will be shown how to use the software to knock out these requirements. You will learn everything you need in order to begin creating your own applications, from translating the user's requirements to creating and modifying your system applications. Use Dynamics NAV's capability to create an application and address the user's needs, while also learning best practices and simple solutions. "Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development" will help you on your way to becoming a great developer!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 3. Exploring the Data Structure and Basic Layout of Dynamics NAV

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." – Confucius

In the previous chapter, we looked at general navigation within Dynamics NAV. Now we will go through and explore the data structure and layout within the base product.

So why is the title of the chapter exploring the basic layout? There are some concepts within Dynamics NAV that are reused throughout the software (refer back to the consistency of the software). The design of the tables is no exception.

In this chapter, we will go through some of the tables that are commonly used for Dynamics NAV implementations. The tables that we will go through will cover the following departments:

  • Sales

  • Purchasing

  • Inventory

Within each department, we will explore the basic tables, such as:

  • Master data: Customer, vendor, items, and so on

  • Reference data: Shipping agent, payment terms, posting groups, and so on

  • Transaction data: Orders, journal lines, ledger entries...